Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] for [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Now a huge one awaited him , liberals looking for expression , eager literati to put in sculpture , worn-out hippies , anyone who wanted to see right done for once . |
| 2 | The result is that in 1981 the cores and rings together accounted for nearly 9 out of 10 of the British population . |
| 3 | Heat the frankfurters by leaving them to stand in a pan of water that has just boiled for about 5 minutes . |
| 4 | Now , suddenly , in the affluent West , that world has possibly gone for ever . |
| 5 | Among the largest and most fully-studied lake systems , Lake Bonney in the Dry Valleys of South Victoria Land has probably existed for over 100 000 years ( Hendy et al . , |
| 6 | But , when Nigel comes next year he 'll bring Eileen and I think that under circumstances I think if we say well come for about quarter to two . |
| 7 | One can expand the boundaries , and because it is the sentiment of the people that one should expand the boundaries , it has manifestly worked for nearly two centuries in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | The secret which Carol has faithfully kept for more than four months was finally out yesterday as Commander Tim Laurence and his bride-to-be allowed her to claim the credit she deserves . |
| 9 | Mick Jagger and Gary Lineker are two other role models who hold little appeal for sexually inactive men . |
| 10 | ‘ So you 'd best live for ever , had n't you ? … |
| 11 | All he owned were the clothes on his back and a few cassettes which I 'd partly paid for anyway . |
| 12 | His last memory was of a rather half-hearted dawn chorus outside the grey windows , so he 'd probably slept for about two hours . |
| 13 | She came here looking for somewhere to live . |
| 14 | I go and wait about for a min , half a sec , ha , you know just wait for about ten seconds I 've forgotten what I 'm supposed to say wha , can you remind you ? |
| 15 | It can not be forgotten or surpassed though gone for ever . |
| 16 | In the process , it discovered such homes often provided better care for seriously mentally frail elderly people than local authority accommodation . |
| 17 | It 's nice , I suppose please come for please I do n't like that . |
| 18 | Manufacturing output increased by around 10 per cent , and manufactures now accounted for about 80 per cent of all exports ( compared with about 33 per cent in 1980 ) . |
| 19 | They needed no second bidding but rode as fast as they could , not pausing until they thundered through the half-open gate of Godstowe Priory , putting the porter into such serious agitation he appeared almost sober for once . |
| 20 | I was n't sure whether she was referring to regional unemployment figures or the fact that I claimed to have actually worked for once . |
| 21 | Indeed it would not be too much to say that neither woman ever really got over it ; a day before the wedding he had written to Mary Trevelyan , expressing the hope that she would remain on friendly terms both with him and his new wife , but the old intimacy had necessarily gone for ever . |
| 22 | The letters they exchanged were formal , just words on a piece of paper ; the warmth they had all shared for so long was missing . |
| 23 | He never ceased to wonder at the irony of expecting miracles from a reliquary in which her bones had once lain for only three days and nights , before being returned reverently to her native Welsh earth ; and even more to be wondered at , the infinite mercy that had transmitted grace through all those miles between , forgiven the presence of a sorry human sinner in the coffin she had quitted , and let the radiance of miracle remain invisibly about her altar , unpredictable , accessible , a shade wanton in where it gave and where it denied , as the stuff of miracles is liable to be , at least to the human view . |
| 24 | Either that or you will have decided to build that extension you 've both wanted for so long to put that rattan furniture in , and when it 's finished discover that the blessed stuff does n't fit at all . |
| 25 | He had spoken in the voice of the army officer he had once been , expecting instant obedience , showing McAllister a man far removed from the one she had now known for over two months . |
| 26 | And when the château the Princesse had now occupied for over twenty years emerged from amidst snow-clad trees halfway up an escarpment , she felt dizzy with the beauty of it all . |
| 27 | It is that wherever Parliament in an earlier statute has directed its attention to an individual case and has made provision for it unambiguously , there arises a presumption that if in a subsequent statute the legislature lays down a general principle , that general principle is not to be taken as meant to rip up what the legislature had before provided for individually , unless an intention to do so is specially declared . |
| 28 | Milk and meat are both produced economically , and the breed 's smallness enables tight stocking for more efficient land use . |
| 29 | We have all endured for far too long , the blatherings of scientific greybeards regarding ‘ The Expanding Universe ’ . |
| 30 | Do n't worry , we have plenty left for later . ’ |